Performance influence of carrier absorption to the Mach-Zehnder- interference based silicon optical switches

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7043-7051

  Zhou, Haifeng ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a   Wang, Wanjun ^a   Yang, Jianyi ^a   Wang, Minghua ^a   Jiang, Xiaoqing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; SILICON;

CARRIER ABSORPTION; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; MACH-ZEHNDER; MACH-ZEHNDER OPTICAL SWITCHES; SILICON OPTICAL SWITCHES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 66649101139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007043     Document Type: Article

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